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Meet Fanto: a revolutionary take on Daily Fantasy Sports

For as long as there has been sport, there has been a desire to predict what’s going to happen in it. Predictions make it possible for fans to get involved,

Digital Sport’s Weekly Wash-Up 2/9/16

ESPN will take the flak if you skip work If you commit to broadcasting 5 straight days of college football, you won’t let anything get in the way of people watching. It may

Bayern Munich’s expansion into the US market is the smart way to success

German football club Bayern Munich seems to be the latest team looking to expand into the sport’s two emerging markets: China and the USA. And it’s the US in particular where Munich

PODCAST #2: Threepipe’s Farhad Koodoruth on using digital to help sell tickets, the role of agencies and Twitter’s future

In this week’s show I explore in-depth how sports should be utilising data to help in areas such as ticket sales. Also we touch on the role of agencies in the future, given the trend for teams and leagues to do more and more in house. And finally his thoughts on my top 3 topics including VR, personalisation and the future of Twitter.

Delivering BBC Sport’s social media offer for the Rio Olympics

Rio 2016 was a truly digital Olympic Games, exceeding all the records set during London 2012. More than 68 million UK unique browsers visited the BBC Sport website to follow

MLS announce Nigel de Jong’s departure from LA Galaxy with bizarre video

The video mentioned in this article has since been deleted from the MLS Twitter account. Watch it here.  Nigel de Jong has completed his move from LA Galaxy to Galatasaray, so